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Coming out in support of it. how do you expect that number to grow now on the heels of what we have seen from the supreme court, especially on the republican side? >> well, the public has clearly been where we need to be. they support marriage equality. 58% of the country. as the senator said, 93 million people live in states where they can be legally married now, thanks to this decision. so i think you're going to see the leaders coming along and following where the public is at. we're really overvo overjoyed t. i couldn't be happier. >> i want to say thanks to both of you. certainly a huge d...

>> we knew from the very beginning that standing could be an issue. and that it could be a way to win the case. so we weren't surprised by this ruling. and so we're very happy with how it turned out. >> in comparison to what we how turned out. >> in comparison to what we saw from doma, how do these two compliment, these rulings, prop 8 and doma, compliment one another? >> well, the doma case set the framework for future cases to strike down marriage equality restrictions in this country, so i think it's very important. and the two cases together i think are going to be extremely important for ...

>> she is not somebody out her whole life looking for a case. she lived privately, closeted almost her entire life. and this struggle came upon her because of a private matter that she never intended to turn into a public fight. she made it into a public fight because she had to. but this is not something she sought out. and i think that mirrors this overall case within this overall issue within the gay rights struggle. >> that's right. >> the struggle to get married is not the most revolutionary idea. it's a very traditional movement. i was on the left side of the gay movement coming up in th...

Proposition 8 case as opposed to defense of marriage case, the doma case, what she will do herself, i think she's a very wise woman and i think she's well aware that abortion 40 years ago, marriage equality in 2013 are really two different issues and i think -- i don't think she's exercising that there's a strategy or signaling to people here is what i think about roe against wade and here is what i will think about the proposition 8 case in california, but i think it would be surprising if the court as a whole vote broadly in the prop 8 case because it doesn't really have to. there's an off r...

Politics in it that she doesn't believe roe versus wade was the best case to get us to the point of abortion rights in all 50 states, but when she says she wishes there was a more limited ruling in roe versus wade, does that indicate to us, and the fact she's saying it now and saying it kind of loudly now, even though she has said it in the past, she knows we're all going to immediately say what does this tell us about how she's going to rule on the marriage equality cases, and doesn't this indicate she's going to rule in the narrowest way possible? >> well, i think everybody would be very sur...